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... ways , determinis- tic chaos is the context , the medium we inhabit in everyday life , ubiquitously allowing for , and indeed mandating individuality as well 1 Introduction: chaos, classics and modern culture Deterministic chaos.
... ways , determinis- tic chaos is the context , the medium we inhabit in everyday life , ubiquitously allowing for , and indeed mandating individuality as well 1 Introduction: chaos, classics and modern culture Deterministic chaos.
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... chaos in nature ( as personified by the cloned dinosaurs ) the Faustian bil- lionaire John Hammond and his associates turn out to be not its masters , but its prey . As a scientific concept , deterministic chaos cannot conceivably be ...
... chaos in nature ( as personified by the cloned dinosaurs ) the Faustian bil- lionaire John Hammond and his associates turn out to be not its masters , but its prey . As a scientific concept , deterministic chaos cannot conceivably be ...
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... deterministic chaos ) that first created ' The Tyger ' : ' What immortal hand or eye / Dare frame thy fearful symmetry ? ' All these frames of reference interact on every scale ( linguistic , conceptual , symbolic , psychological ...
... deterministic chaos ) that first created ' The Tyger ' : ' What immortal hand or eye / Dare frame thy fearful symmetry ? ' All these frames of reference interact on every scale ( linguistic , conceptual , symbolic , psychological ...
Contents
chaos classics and modern culture | 1 |
chaos theory Miltons Eden and Jurassic | 26 |
The butterfly effect and the apple effect | 40 |
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Strange Attractors: Literature, Culture, and Chaos Theory Harriett Hawkins No preview available - 1995 |
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